Empowering the Elderly? : How 'Help to Self-Help' Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark /
Health programmes that offer "help to self-help" are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention and individual agency happen simultane...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcipt,
[2020]
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Colección: | Aging studies ;
v. 20. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- The construction of 'the elderly' and the paradox of the Third Age
- The emergence of the 'limited yet limitless' ageing consumer
- Reablement or 'everyday-rehabilitation' programmes in Scandinavia
- The book's motivation, aim, and relevance
- Examining eldercare encounters through the lens of 'empowerment'
- Overview of the book's chapters
- 1 From help to self-help: the transformation of eldercare in Denmark
- 1.1 Understanding 'healthy ageing' in Denmark
- 1.2 Denmark's emergence as a welfare state
- 1.3 Denmark's emergence as a competition state
- 1.4 The 2007 reforms and the empowerment of the municipalities
- 1.5 The changing role of municipal health professionals
- 2 'Following the rhetoric' in a Danish municipality
- 2.1 The municipality as a site of ethnographic inquiry
- 2.2 Municipal introduction programme and entering 'the field'
- 2.3 Attending municipal community events for the elderly
- 2.4 Fieldwork among three groups of health professionals
- 2.5 Interviews and other research: places, people, policies, and perspectives
- 2.6 Gaining insight from an intersubjective, situated position
- 2.7 Ethical obligations and the handling of empirical material
- PART I: LABOUR
- activity related to the biological process of the human body
- Introduction
- 3 Evaluating the body's need for help
- 3.1 The primacy of the rational consumer's physical body
- 3.2 A focus on offering 'opportunities'
- 3.3 The mindful agency of active consumer-citizens
- 3.4 Engaging the 'limited yet limitless' body
- Summary
- 4 Embodying potential
- 4.1 Developing the body's potential for self-help
- 4.2 The embodiment of self-helping habits
- 4.3 The importance of repetition and praise
- 4.4 When the body lacks potential
- Summary
- PART II: WORK
- activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects
- Introduction
- 5 Navigating public/private divisions
- 5.1 Crossing the home's threshold
- 5.2 Evaluating the home as a setting for ageing in place
- 5.3 Negotiating the home as a public/private space
- 5.4 When a lack of privacy is welcome
- Summary
- 6 Stabilising the home to promote 'ageing in place'
- 6.1 Re-stabilising the home as a place of security
- 6.2 The significance of home-based routines
- 6.3 Adjusting the home's materiality to provide security
- 6.4 Feeling secure in the public space outside of the home
- Summary
- PART III: ACTION
- activity related to the human condition of plurality
- Introduction
- 7 Offering free choice and empowerment
- 7.1 Locating the power of the Will
- 7.2 Encountering a citizen's 'messy subjectivity'
- 7.3 Empowerment through free choice
- 7.4 Relinquishing free choice
- Summary
- 8 Producing a 'shared responsibility' for care
- 8.1 Encountering 'irrational' citizens